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Take a look at how our October started🍂🍁🧡Our preschoolers have been enjoying autumn themed activities, welcoming our new...
10/10/2026

Take a look at how our October started🍂🍁🧡

Our preschoolers have been enjoying autumn themed activities, welcoming our new preschoolers into the room and helping Sheila our chef take care of her home grown tomatoes 🍅

What an amazing month so far 🧡

Our very own minibeast search! 🐞🐛🪲Whilst in the garden, we noticed some woodlouse nesting in our planters! The children ...
07/10/2026

Our very own minibeast search! 🐞🐛🪲
Whilst in the garden, we noticed some woodlouse nesting in our planters! The children were so excited to see them that we set up an inviting minibeast themed tuff tray for the babies to explore. The babies were fascinated by the various bugs we added and enjoyed filling, emptying and transfering the soil.
Whilst engaging with this activity, we found some of the woodlice from the planters and placed them in a container for the children to observe. It's safe to say that the babies were fascinated by the woodlice; paying close attention to the way they crawl and move. When the babies were ready to say goodbye to the woodlice, we filled a planter full of fresh soil for them to live in. 🪲
At Thrive Pudsey, we pride ourselves on exploring nature and investigating our surroundings. Our children love to see and take care of all animals and insects. Biodiversity plays a huge role in early childhood - building empathy and a lifelong love for the environment that surrounds us. It also helps children develop compassion and an early understanding of our choices affecting the environment. 🌎
We plan to create a bug hotel to continue our exploration within the baby room. We are so excited to see which insects we can attract! 🐞

Autumn in babies 🍁🍂🌳Autumn in such a special time for our babies - we see the nights become darker earlier, feel a chang...
29/09/2026

Autumn in babies 🍁🍂🌳

Autumn in such a special time for our babies - we see the nights become darker earlier, feel a change in the cool weather and see colourful leaves falling from trees. 🍂

The babies have had a magical morning making our very own leaf soup! We worked super hard to add leaves and colourful, cinnamon scented water into various bowls using ladles and spoons. This encouraged the babies to develop their gross motor skills, develop manipulation and control and practise transferring. Some of the larger movements we made include stirring, pouring, filling, emptying and mixing. 🍲

This was a fantastic opportunity for the babies to investigate the leaves we collected; crunching them in our palms and listening to the crackling sound this makes and turning the leaves over repeatedly to examine the colour and patterns on them. It was also a great opportunity for our older babies to begin to develop role-play skills. 🍁

The soups smelled and looked delicious! 🍲🍂

Autumn so far in toddler room 🍂🍁🧡 The children have been very busy exploring a range of Autumn themed activities, from m...
29/09/2026

Autumn so far in toddler room 🍂🍁🧡

The children have been very busy exploring a range of Autumn themed activities, from making their own 'Gruffalo crumble', to mud paintings to leaf stamping.

We have been discussing colour changes in the leaves on the trees and involving that into our activities. Some children were selected as special helpers to find leaves in Pre-School garden for us to all use in our activities. Well done toddlers !

The babies made their very own fruity yoghurt bark! (Made using soya milk to cater to all allergens). 🥣🥝As part of our c...
28/09/2026

The babies made their very own fruity yoghurt bark! (Made using soya milk to cater to all allergens). 🥣🥝
As part of our cooking club extra-curriciular, we will be making various creations and trialling different recipes to promote healthy eating weekly. The babies enjoyed being involved in ways such as scooping, mashing, spreading and pouring. We focusd on identifying the fruits and foods used, enhancing our fine and gross motor skills and having conversations about which foods are good for our bodies.
What an amazing job the babies did at mashing the fruits, scooping the yoghurt onto the tray and spreading it out, adding in their fruits and mixing it all together! Of course, we had to have a little taste test of the fruits we used! 🍓🥝
What a yummy treat this was for our snack, we loved sharing it with our friends in the setting.

🌟 WANTED: Superhero Level 2 or 3 Early Years Practitioner 🌟Are you an expert at building tall towers and dancing in the ...
22/09/2026

🌟 WANTED: Superhero Level 2 or 3 Early Years Practitioner 🌟Are you an expert at building tall towers and dancing in the rain? Do you know the difference between a Triceratops and a T-Rex? Thrive Pudsey has an exciting opportunity to join and learn alongside our magical team! We need someone who loves to laugh, enjoys getting messy, and wants to help little minds grow big ideas.
🧩 What we can offer you:A Birthday Day off, attractive benefits package and a week off between Christmas and New Year.

🚀 Ready to Start the Adventure?
We would love to meet you! Apply through our website careers.thrivechildcare.com or contact the nursery directly on [email protected] or call us on 01132 555516

💃 BABY RAVE 🎶Baby room have now started having baby rave sessions - held multiple times a week so each child can partici...
10/09/2026

💃 BABY RAVE

🎶Baby room have now started having baby rave sessions - held multiple times a week so each child can participate. Baby rave promotes our daily mile programme by encouraging our babies to take part in physical activity in a fun and exciting way! It consists of dancing and moving around to a variety of songs - even using props such as fun sunglasses, glow sticks, dance sticks and our bubble machine.

Baby rave promotes:
💫physical development and enhancing core strength and coordination
💫music and movement
💫expanding vocabluary through the use of rhymes and songs, using repetition
💫enhancing social skills and building bonds between peers
💫early listening and focus skills by responding to the actions in songs
💫improved self-regulation skills

Baby rave allows us to provide our children with a safe and physical outlet to express their feelings through music and movement - linking closely with our curriculum intent and focus of PSE D in our baby room. Building bonds with peers and key workers and feeling secure is always a key next step for our babies, and we are always aiming to support the children and their feelings. What a huge hit this has been!

Bubble week in babies! 🫧Our babies have shown such an interest in bubbles from our bubble machines, that we have had a w...
10/09/2026

Bubble week in babies! 🫧

Our babies have shown such an interest in bubbles from our bubble machines, that we have had a whole week of exploring different ways of making bubbles to expand on this interest. We have been singing lots of "bubble, bubble, pop", allowing us to build an understanding of early sequencing, enhancing language and exploring cause and effect.

The babies absolutely loved watching how we can make gigantic bubbles by lifting a hula hoop through soapy water - so much so that they even sat inside the hula hoop and watched the bubble form around them! This STEM activity really intrigued all of our babies and was a great way to explore bubbles on a larger scale.

We also took part in a soapy car wash, where the children were encouraged to transport the cars and wash them clean with sponges. This was a big hit, and the babies loved squeezing the sponges to rinse out the soapy bubbles. 🚗

We have even explored mark-making with bubbly paint, looking at the bubbles that formed when we stamped bottles onto the paper and popping them afterwards. This was such a fun way of exploring the different ways we can make marks whilst encouraging the babies to explore textures and get messy. 🎨

Acorn had lots of fun with one of our families last week. They went to the farm to see the animals. Saw many varieties o...
07/09/2026

Acorn had lots of fun with one of our families last week. They went to the farm to see the animals. Saw many varieties of fish and Penguins at The Deep Aquarium and looked at some art at Salt Mills.

The toddlers have been showing alot of interest in identifying different vehicles that they spot either at drop off/ pic...
04/09/2026

The toddlers have been showing alot of interest in identifying different vehicles that they spot either at drop off/ pick up, on outings or airplanes in the sky. We expanded this interest into our play by setting up various activities. We explored fire engines by putting out the 'fire' in the garden using foam and buckets of water, we worked as a team to empty the buckets onto the 'fire' until it disappeared. We also explored a mark making activity where we used different vehicles to create marks,the children loved moving the vehicles along the train tracks following the bends as they went. We expanded this using paint to make marks and then finished it off by making our very own car wash using cloths, sponges and soapy warm water to wash away all the paint from the cars making them squeaky clean again ! 🚗🚔🚓🚃🚨

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3-5 Wesley Square
Pudsey
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